Part 3 (1/2)
”She fought hard I believe I would have scratched that fat woman's face myself, if I'd been her Anyway, she wasn't in any uniform Don't they always put orphans in blue deniirl would have looked awful in blue She was too dark She wasn't very well dressed, but her clothes and their colors were tasteful”
”Aren't you the observing thing,” agreed Amy ”She was dressed nicely
And those wouards from an institution”
”Oh, no!”
”It was a private kidnaping party, I guess,” said Aht under our noses and did not stop it,”
sighed Jessie Norwood ”I'rinned elfishly ”He will tell you that you had a right, under the law, to stop those women and ht to do a thing and the ability to do it, he will likewise tell s”
”Wisdohed Amy ”Well, I don't suppose, after all, it is any of our business, or ever will be The poor thing is now a captive and being borne away to the dungeon-keep Whatever that is,” she added, shrugging her shoulders
INTEREST IN RADIO SPREADS
CHAPTER III
INTEREST IN RADIO SPREADS
Over the George Washi+ngton sundaes at the New Melford Dainties Shop the girls discussed the town Lane until it was, as Amy said, positively frayed
”We do not knohat it was all about, my dear, so orry our ain, or those tomen Only, that lean one--well! I know I have seen her somewhere, or somebody who looks like her”
”I don't see but you are just as bad as I am,” Jessie Norwood said
”But we did not co”
”No-o We caeous sundaes,” declared Amy Drew ”Your mother, Jess, is alet radio books and buy wire and stops and all that for the aerials, anyway Of course, I shall have to send for ular radio equipment dealer in New Melford”
”Oh, yes! Wireless!” otten that”
They trotted across the street to the bookstore Motors were co up from the station now, and fro acquaintances, and just outside Ye Craftsman's Bookshop they ran into Nell Stanley, who they knew had no business at all there on Main Street at this hour of the afternoon Nell was the hter, and there were a nue (Amy said ”a whole raft of them”) who usually needed the older sister's attention, approaching supper ti and strong and really handso was so fresh, her chestnut hair so abundant, her gray eyes so brilliantly intelligent, and her teeth so dazzling ”Aunt Freda is at the house and she and the Reverend told o out and not to show ood!” declared Amy ”You'll co with Jess helping her build a radio thing so we can do without buying the New Melford _Tribune_ to get the local news”
”Oh, Jess, dear, _are_ you going to have a radio?” cried Nell ”It's just wonderful Reverend says he may have to broadcast his sermons pretty soon or else be without an audience”